Flash Point is a Tetris-like released only in Japan as a sequel to Sega's Japanese arcade game. Unlike typical Tetris, which is usually a pure survival, your goal is to eliminate all golden blocks from the field. Strangely, this game names its only game play as "Ojama Mode" (ojama meaning nuisance), but there's a reason for it...
Normal Mode#
Add the following cheat in your MAME to enable mode select screen (works with both fpoint and fpoint1):
Alternatively, you can skip to Normal Mode without using the mode select screen:
Unlike "Ojama Mode", you start with an empty field. Like Sega's Tetris, the goal is to survive as long as possible.
Mode Select Screen#
The unused music (#90) plays here. The default cursor position is Ojama Mode.
Japanese |
Translation |
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ノーマルモード |
Normal Mode |
おじゃまモード |
Ojama (Nuisance) Mode |
旧作 |
Old Game |
新作 |
New Game |
Differences From "Ojama Mode"#
- Delayed Auto Shift (DAS) is much longer than Ojama Mode.
- No DAS for soft dropping the piece. The piece starts to fall as soon as you move the lever down.
- You can earn points from clearing lines. The line scoring is the same as Sega's Tetris:
- Single: 100 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
- Double: 400 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
- Triple: 900 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
- Tetris: 2000 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
- The instruction demo map from Sega's Tetris is used for the "How To Play" screen. However, there are no separate input data for it, so the demo player will end up dying.
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Ojama Mode |
Normal Mode |
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High-Score List#
Normal Mode uses a different high-score list than Ojama Mode, and can partially be restored by the following cheat:
This cheat forces the Ojama Mode ranking screen to load Normal Mode's high scores instead.
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The default high scores for Normal Mode are as follows:
Rank |
Name |
Score |
Lines |
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1 |
STU |
10000 |
32 |
2 |
FF. |
9000 |
30 |
3 |
YON |
8000 |
28 |
4 |
EZA |
7000 |
26 |
5 |
WA. |
6000 |
24 |
6 |
MIN |
5000 |
20 |
7 |
ODA |
4000 |
18 |
8 |
SAI |
3000 |
16 |
9 |
TO. |
2000 |
12 |
10 |
END |
1000 |
8 |
Putting the high score names together, it reveals some partial staff credits: STAFF: YONEZAWA. MINODA and SAITO.
The word "Stuff" was most likely meant to say "Staff", and was mistranslated from the fact that both words have the same exact spelling in katakana, "Sutaffu" (スタッフ).
Unused Music#
Sound #90, the default music in the sound test, is not used during normal gameplay. It is used in the disabled Mode Select screen, though, as well as the title screen of the cancelled Genesis port.